Proposal: Permit transfer of neuron ownership

[paulyoung]

Imagine the concerns around neuron markets apply to this thread as well.

Proposal: Remove the is_self_authenticating restriction on Neuron Ownership

Hi all, we had some discussions in DFINITY regarding whether NNS neurons should be controllable by canisters. Our current take is that we should not allow canisters to control NNS neurons as we should not risk the creation of neuron markets. One main concern about having services that offer “staked tokens” and hold huge NNS neurons is that these services would have a very large, aggregated voting power in the NNS which may thus centralize the voting power. Some more detailed concerns / answer…